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![]() ![]() ‘“Honest and unflinching, this is a compelling story of one teen’s struggle with cancer, love, and living. Praise for Side Effects May Vary School Library Journal Julie Murphy's Side Effects May Vary is a fearless and moving tour de force about love, life, and facing your own mortality. But has she caused irreparable damage to the people around her - and to the one person who matters most? Now Alice is forced to face the consequences of all that she's said and done, as well as her true feelings for Harvey. But just when Alice's scores are settled, she goes into remission. She convinces her friend Harvey, who she knows has always had feelings for her, to help her with a crazy bucket list that's as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend and getting back at her archnemesis) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger). ![]() To maximize the time she does have, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs - however she sees fit. When 16-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. What if you'd been living your life as if you were dying - only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? ![]() ![]() ![]() Any illegal content will be removed at the moderators' discretion. If you want to include a link in your suggestion we encourage you to link to the author's page or to an amazon alternative.ĭon't link to illegal content. ![]() Top level replies must be suggestions or question to clear up the request. Don't attack the requests or any suggestions made, and definitely do not attack or scold individual users (it's sad really, that we actually have to specifically say this.)
![]() ![]() An overnight sensation in South Korea (the novel has been translated into many languages, including English by the exceptionally talented Jamie Chang), it has given voice to the feelings and experience of millions of women around the world, and is widely accredited with helping to spark a national movement for equality in Japan. Now there is Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, a multi-million copy international bestseller by South Korean author, Cho Nam-Joo. In America, one woman spoke out to reclaim her truth, and eventually she and had her fellow warriors brought down one of Hollywood’s longest standing predators. ![]() ![]() Revolutions often begin with a single shot ringing out across acres of tense silence or a lone voice raised in the opposite direction to the swarm of noise around it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure-but to receive it, George will first have to bring Winthrop back from the dead. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit.īack in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.Ītticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. “Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can’t help but feel it’s disturbingly real.”-Christopher Moore ![]() ![]() ![]() Lyrically melding facts and otherworldly elements, including the angel of death, Jewish folklore, and the Danube as a magical, life-giving river with which Csilla can communicate, Locke (the Balloonmakers series) offers an original, moving tribute to the bravery of freedom fighters-straight and queer, Jewish and gentile-who risked their lives for their cause. Infected by news of Polish freedom fighters and a growing sense of possibility, they join with others in demanding liberation from post-Stalinist Soviet rule. After she’s followed by the secret police one morning, she’s saved from almost certain arrest by a familiar-seeming entity, then encounters a handsome student, Tamás, who’s mourning his murdered lover. ![]() Change may be in the air, but Csilla still keeps a low profile while planning to escape with her aunt to Israel. Though Csilla’s parents were killed “for the crime of dual loyalty, of Zionism” four years back, they’re now exonerated, then reburied in a state funeral. ![]() In the autumn of 1956-11 years after the Holocaust and a decade after Russian domination-the Budapest of Jewish newspaper typist Csilla Tisza has gone literally colorless, and its residents remain cautious, afraid of the Hungarian secret police. Narrator Kathleen Gati deftly captures the tensions of the harrowing 1956 Hungarian Revolution in this powerful audiobook. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Ends: The ending is the beginning of the opening sentence fragment.What's more, they're in different phases a passing physicist points out that this is impossible. Bad Moon Rising: At one point, the clouds part to show two moons (one of which is promptly named "George") in the sky.Delany is very fond of characters with "ugly" hands and bitten nails. ![]() Arc Words: "You can't make that discord on a harmonica." "Someday I'll die." "Artichokes.".Bellona is perpetually overcast and covered in smoke, with a few exceptions when the sky is shown, it may contain two moons or a sun so large it takes up the whole sky. (It was Delany's first serious attempt at blending SF with Lit Fic.) This description doesn't really do the book justice. Eventually a massive fire forces him to leave. He explores, learning about its inhabitants and culture, staying for months. ![]() The narrator, a nameless man of strange ethnicity, hitches a ride to the city, and the plot begins. It's become a haven for the dregs and free spirits of society. A strange catastrophe has befallen it, and so radio/television/phone signals can neither enter nor leave. It takes place in the fictional city of Bellona, which is in the exact geographic center of the United States. Dhalgren is a strange New Wave Science Fiction / Lit Fic novel by Samuel R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In all honesty, I struggled getting into this book at first. ![]() You'll LAUGH, LOVE, and maybe CRY a little Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Low Country. This unknown legacy, now Merritt's, will change and define her as she navigates her new life - a new life complicated by the arrival of her too-young stepmother and 10-year-old half brother. Charting the course of an uncertain life - and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death - Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news - Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. The New York Times best-selling author of A Long Time Gone now explores a Southern family's buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it secret by shattering secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concept of Cradle to Cradle is a sustainable strategy to equip a variety of products without any kind of toxic chemicals that enable value creation within a natural cycle. The end result are highly profitable products for humans and nature, which anticipate environmental standards of the future already today. Products that are designed and produced according to these principles serve at the end of their life cycle always as a nutrient for new high-quality options of usage, thus resources circulate constantly in loops. alchemia-nova is an official partner institute from EPEA. In Europe this visionary application started with EPEA Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency GmbH in Hamburg. Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough. The revolutionary Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) concept was originally instituted by the chemist and process engineer Prof. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This book opens a window into the hidden aspects of the Japanese world of the paranormal, a place where trees grow human hair, rocks weep and there's even a graveyard where Jesus is reputed to have been buried. ![]() They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Japanese Ghost Stories is a collection of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in Japanese Ghost Stories. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: "rokuro-kubi," whose heads separate from their bodies at night "jikininki," or flesh-eating goblins and terrifying faceless "mujina" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. This, along with my extensive reading of both fiction and. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. In my free time, I enjoy traveling around Japan collecting local ghost stories and folk tales. The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese. ![]() Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn-whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits ![]() |